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TNSR0326PassDr. Joseph Wasmond
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2024-04-30
Signed by Senate Speaker
TNSB1715PassAs enacted, authorizes a law enforcement agency to assign a law enforcement officer to serve as a school resource officer at a school within a local board of education's control that has not entered into a memorandum of understanding with a law enfor...
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2024-04-29
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNSB2501PassAs introduced, establishes deadlines for public institutions of higher education to initiate and complete an investigation into a report filed by a student or employee alleging they have been penalized, discriminated against, or received adverse trea...
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2024-04-29
Signed by Governor.
TNSB1325PassAs introduced, authorizes a faculty or staff member of a school to carry a concealed handgun on school grounds subject to certain conditions, including obtaining an enhanced handgun carry permit and completing annual training. - Amends TCA Title 39, ...
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2024-04-26
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR1379PassTommy Harber, 2024 Supplier of the Year
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2024-04-24
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR1382PassCheri Doane, Ms. Tennessee Senior America 2023
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2024-04-24
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR1362PassHannah-Kate McFadden
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2024-04-24
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR1489PassOfficer Joseph McKinney, Memphis Police Department
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2024-04-24
Signed by Governor.
TNSB1142PassAs introduced, vacates the commission and reconstitutes the commission; changes the size and appointing authorities for the commission from 24 gubernatorial appointees to 20 total members with five each being appointed by the governor, the speaker of...
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2024-04-23
Signed by Governor.
TNSB1641PassAs introduced, creates the right of an attorney in fact designated to make healthcare decisions under a durable power of attorney for health care to conduct at least one in-person visitation with the principal for each day the principal is in a hospi...
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2024-04-23
Signed by Governor.
TNSB2223PassAs introduced, enacts the "Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act," which prohibits a financial institution from requiring the usage of a merchant code that distinguishes a firearms retailer from a general merchandise retailer or a sporting goods ret...
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2024-04-23
Signed by Governor.
TNSB2766PassAs introduced, revises language prohibiting educators from discriminating against students on certain, specified bases to generally prohibiting educators from discriminating against students who are members of a protected class under federal or state...
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2024-04-23
Signed by Governor.
TNSB2390PassAs enacted, designates "Tennessee, In My Dreams" by Makky Kaylor as an official state song. - Amends TCA Section 4-1-302.
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2024-04-22
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 724
TNSJR1388PassRepresentative. Judd Matheny
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2024-04-19
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR1235PassMichael Maren
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2024-04-19
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR1192PassSenator Art Swann
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2024-04-19
Signed by Governor.
TNSR0314PassAlan Whittington, 50th birthday
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2024-04-19
Signed by Senate Speaker
TNSB1062PassAs enacted, makes changes to the law relative to the South Central Tennessee Railroad Authority, including establishing that three or more of the counties of Dickson, Hickman, Lewis, Perry, and Wayne and the cities of Dickson, Centerville, and Hohenw...
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2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024
TNSB1721PassAs enacted, requires the department of safety to create de-escalation training for teachers, administrators, and other school personnel; requires LEAs and public charter schools to ensure that the LEA's or public charter school's teachers, administra...
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2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024
TNSB2478PassAs enacted, prohibits the department of agriculture or any other state or local department or agency from entering private property without probable cause to believe that a criminal offense has occurred or is occurring, the consent of the property ow...
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2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNSB2969PassSubject to local approval, repeals obsolete language regarding the establishment of a civil service system for sheriff's department employees, which has been replaced by a new civil service system for such employees. - Amends Chapter 475 of the Priva...
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2024-04-17
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 51
TNSB2359PassAs enacted, prohibits the department from requiring an immunization as a condition of adopting or overseeing a child in foster care if an individual or member of an individual's household objects to immunization on the basis of religious or moral con...
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2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024
TNSB1843PassAs enacted, requires the department to investigate reports of the amount of diagnoses of cancer and Parkinson's disease based on data currently available to the department in Maury County and Lawrence County; requires the department to submit a repor...
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2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 04/11/2024
TNSB2576PassAs enacted, requires, rather than authorizes, law enforcement agencies to communicate with the appropriate federal official regarding the immigration status of any individual, including reporting knowledge that a particular alien is not lawfully pres...
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2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 716
TNSJR0870PassExpresses support for State of Israel and condemns recent attacks on Israel.
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2024-04-09
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR1174PassField Training Officer Taylor Heath, Fairview Police Department
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2024-04-09
Signed by Governor.
TNSR0280PassCheri Doane, Ms. Tennessee Senior America 2023
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2024-04-09
Enrolled and ready for signatures
TNSB2660PassAs enacted, require the department to file a petition of termination of adoptive parent's parental rights with a juvenile court, within 90 days of the juvenile courts finding that there has been substantial noncompliance by a parent or guardian with ...
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2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNSB1699PassAs enacted, expands the eligibility for filing a petition to obtain a lifetime order of protection to include victims of aggravated stalking, especially aggravated stalking, and felony harassment. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39.
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2024-04-08
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 632
TNSB1864PassAs enacted, authorizes a POST-certified law enforcement officer, rather than a full-time, salaried police officer, to detain a person based on a reasonable belief that the person's motor vehicle does not comply with state law regarding tinted motor v...
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2024-04-03
Effective date(s) 03/27/2024
TNSB2175PassAs enacted, enacts the "Smart Heart Act"; establishes various requirements for automatic external defibrillators in schools and response protocols for cardiac-related medical emergencies. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.
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2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 625
TNSB2027PassAs enacted, clarifies that under this state's law relative to wage regulations, the term "work" has the same meaning as interpreted by the United States supreme court for purposes of the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947; ...
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2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 623
TNSB2572PassAs enacted, prohibits a local governmental entity or official from adopting or enacting a resolution, ordinance, or policy that prohibits or limits the ability of a law enforcement agency to conduct traffic stops based on observation of or reasonable...
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2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 631
TNSR0255PassTrey Cunningham
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2024-04-02
Signed by Senate Speaker
TNSJR1138PassCallie Tuck, Top Ten Senior, Spring Hill High School
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2024-03-28
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR1142PassJackson Bruce Argue, Top Ten Senior, Spring Hill High School
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2024-03-28
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR1144PassAustin Samuel Johnson, Top Ten Senior, Spring Hill High School
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2024-03-28
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR1137PassPenelope Makaela Phillips, Salutatorian, Spring Hill High School
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2024-03-28
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR1145PassKatlin Fay Richardson, Top Ten Senior, Spring Hill High School
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2024-03-28
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR1143PassGabriella Lynn Rosa, Top Ten Senior, Spring Hill High School
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2024-03-28
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR1136PassIsaac "Wesley" Jones, Valedictorian, Spring Hill High School
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2024-03-28
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR1141PassJudah Providence Greer, Top Ten Senior, Spring Hill High School
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2024-03-28
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR1140PassAmber Bopp, Top Ten Senior, Spring Hill High School
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2024-03-28
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR1139PassJeffrey Frelon Smothermon, Jr., Top Ten Senior, Spring Hill High School
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2024-03-28
Signed by Governor.
TNSB1595PassAs enacted, prohibits emotional support animals that are not trained, or being trained, to perform tasks or work for a person with a disability from indoor areas of food service establishments. - Amends TCA Section 6-54-135; Title 39, Chapter 14, Par...
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2024-03-26
Effective date(s) 03/15/2024
TNSB1701PassAs enacted, clarifies that pleas of guilt and nolo contendere to certain criminal offenses subject an educator to automatic revocation of an educator license by the state board; specifies that criminal offenses committed in another jurisdiction that ...
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2024-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 577
TNSB2096PassAs enacted, defines and adds "voice" as a protected personal right; adds commercial availability of a sound recording or audiovisual work in which the individual's name, voice, likeness, or image is readily identifiable to considerations for determin...
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2024-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 588
TNSR0256PassNational Medal of Honor Day
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2024-03-26
Signed by Senate Speaker
TNSJR1103PassRachel Riley, Lewis County Middle School Teacher of the Year
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2024-03-25
Signed by Governor.
TNSJR1105PassLauren Hamm, Lewis County High School Teacher of the Year
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2024-03-25
Signed by Governor.
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